The Oceano Community Services District Board of Directors voted in a special closed session meeting last week to keep embattled General Manager Lonnie Curtis On Dec. 23, the board met solely to conduct an evaluation of Curtis’s...
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An inmate escaped from a minimum security area of the federal penitentiary in Lompoc on Friday. [KSBY] Prison officials discovered that Jeffrey Kilbride, 48, was missing at around 1:30 p.m....
Read MoreFireworks caused a small hillside fire in Cambria early Tuesday morning, according to firefighting officials. [Tribune] The fire burned a forested area of about 40 square feet on a hill below the Cambria Pines Lodge before...
Read MoreLaw enforcement officials seized 204 bales of marijuana, totaling 3,570 pounds, from a panga boat that beached north of Piedras Blancas Lighthouse and San Simeon on Monday. [Tribune] A witness spotted the smugglers late Monday...
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A law requiring California public schools to let transgender students use sex-segregated facilities is set to take effect Jan. 1, despite a legal challenge. [KTVU] The law will allow students...
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A fire broke out on Christmas Eve at a Grover Beach motel that doubles as a residential building. [Tribune] Around 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Five Cities firefighters responded to a laundry room fire at the...
Read MorePolice officers arrested a Santa Maria Man in Arroyo Grande for allegedly kidnapping a woman on Christmas Eve. [KSBY] Officers responded to the reported kidnapping around 5:30 p.m. Tuesday and searched for the vehicle of...
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OPINION By LAURA MORDAUNT Our elected officials are usually ordinary people who decided to care about our county and its residents…blah, blah, blah. I think that is the way it use to be with some...
Read MoreA California judge ruled Monday that employees of the city of San Jose have vested rights to their pension benefits. [Mercury News] Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Patricia Lucas struck down part of a 2012 pension reform...
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San Luis Obispo County would join Los Angeles, Ventura and Santa Barbara counties to form the state of West California, if voters support the initiative of a Silicon Valley investor. [LA Times]...
Read MoreA panga boat beached north of San Simeon Monday afternoon. The San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office received a report of a panga landing around 5 p.m. Monday. Deputies, State Parks rangers and California Highway Patrol...
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A trailer full of hay caught on fire on the Cal Poly campus Saturday. [Tribune] A pickup truck was hauling alfalfa hay to deliver as cattle feed around 12:30 p.m. Saturday when flames sparked from...
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By JOSH FRIEDMAN Los Osos Community Services District board member David Vogel moved outside of the district, making him ineligible to remain in office. Vogel moved to a house on Cimarron Way, which...
Read MoreBy JOSH FRIEDMAN The Oceano Community Services District Board of Directors will hold a special meeting two days before Christmas to discuss the performance of its general manager, who is accused of plagiarizing part of his job...
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A graduate of Coast Union High School in Cambria has become the high scoring survivalist on the Discovery Channel reality Show “Naked and Afraid.” [Tribune] Forrest Galante, 25, survived three weeks...
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